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Alexander Surkov
web, a11y, technologies, shaping the future
Canada
I am a software engineer passionate about the web, open source and accessibility. I love math (I hold a PhD in differential equations) and nature (paddling Ontario on a canoe is my favorite), and many many other things.
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Ozone: our way to the big change
Did you know that there is the Ozone layer inside Chromium? Well, Chromium is so huge, it has enough space for anything. Like the real ozone layer o
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Drop shadows on Linux, or why standards are good
Since the origins of graphical desktop environments, there were two approaches to styling GUI of an application: using the standard system toolkit ver
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Hidden Gem of Chromium Accessibility
Low-level accessibility toolsThere’s a hidden gem in Chromium accessibility. It is the command line accessibility tools. Similar to accessibility insp
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Django + Postgres + nginx + uWSGI = ❤️
To date, I set up a production web service thrice. (Yeah, I am a full stack dev!) The first time I did many mistakes. That website still works, I main...
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